Duke's Road Woes Continue With Loss In Winston Salem To Wake Forest In Double Overtime
Last week Duke lost in North Carolina’s state capital to NC State by 22 points.
This week Duke who is ranked seventh in this weeks AP Top 25 poll lost in Winston Salem to a Wake Forest team who has a record of 12-15 and 5-2 in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The similarities in these two opponents They’re both unranked unlike Duke.
-- Wendell Moore Jr. recorded a career-high 25 points, but Wake Forest was able to outlast seventh-ranked Duke 113-101 in double overtime on Tuesday night “according to https://goduke.com/news/2020/2/25/mens-basketball-no-7-duke-comes-up-short-in-double-ot.aspx
While Duke’s road woes continued Wake Forest won the rematch between the two Atlantic Coast Conference foes after Duke won by 31 points in Durham on January 8th.
Olivier Sarr led the Demon Deacons with a career-high 25 points. Chaundee Brown had 23 points for his fifth 20-point game of the season and Jahcobi Neath added 16 points, matching his career high. Brandon Childress scored 13 of his 17 points in the overtimes and Isaiah Mucius added 16 points. “according to https://godeacs.com/news/2020/2/25/mens-basketball-wake-forest-downs-no-7-duke-in-double-overtime-thriller.aspx
HOW IT HAPPENED
The Deacons got off to a strong start offensively and took a 13-7 lead over the first six minutes. Wake pushed the lead to 29-18 with 8:00 to play in the half as Neath scored 10 of the Deacs' first 29 points. The Deacs led by as many as 12 in the first half before Duke used a late run to tie the game at 39-39 at the break. Both Neath and Brown scored 11 first half points to lead Wake.”according to https://godeacs.com/news/2020/2/25/mens-basketball-wake-forest-downs-no-7-duke-in-double-overtime-thriller.aspx
Duke (23-5, 13-4 ACC) used an early 8-0 run in the second half to take a 56-46 lead with 13:00 to play. The Blue Devils led by 12 before a 6-0 Deacon run cut the lead in half, 62-56, with 9:40 to play. Wake drew within four at 69-65 with 5:30 to go and trailed 79-76 with 31.7 left after Sarr scored on an alley-oop from Neath. After a steal, Brandon Childress made a three to tie the game 18 seconds left. An offensive foul on Duke gave the Deacs the ball back with 8.1 left but Childress' floater as time expired rolled off the rim to send the game to overtime. “according to https://godeacs.com/news/2020/2/25/mens-basketball-wake-forest-downs-no-7-duke-in-double-overtime-thriller.aspx
Wake (12-15, 5-12 ACC) led 85-84 at the midway point of overtime after a pull-up jumper from Childress. A layup from Sarr with 1:15 left pushed the lead to 89-86 and Wake held an 89-88 lead with a minute to go. Childress had a layup-and-one with 46.9 left to make the score 92-88. Wake led 94-92 with 30.0 left and Mucius pushed the lead to 96-92 at the line with 22.3 left before a Duke triple made the lead 96-95 with 16.0 left. Mucius was fouled again with 11.4 and went 1-of-2 to make the score 97-95 before Duke tied it from the line with 6.6 to go and forced a second overtime. “according to https://godeacs.com/news/2020/2/25/mens-basketball-wake-forest-downs-no-7-duke-in-double-overtime-thriller.aspx
Childress opened the second overtime with a triple and a putback from Oguama gave Wake an early five-point lead with 3:00 to go. A Mucius layup made it a 7-0 run as Wake led 104-97 with 2:20 to play. A Childress jumper made it 107-99 with just over a minute left and his layup with under a minute extended the lead to 109-101, before a dunk from Mucius sealed the 113-101 victory. “according to https://godeacs.com/news/2020/2/25/mens-basketball-wake-forest-downs-no-7-duke-in-double-overtime-thriller.aspx
Duke will now turn their attention to preparing for their only regular season meeting of the season with the defending national champions in Charlottesville Saturday night where they will not only look to bounce back but hopefully finish out the regular season on the road on a high note before returning to Durham to closeout the home portion of their 2019-20 schedule with rematches against NC State and North Carolina.